billingsgate
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The object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious�and highly litigious�Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gleason merely settles in for an extended Honeymooners skit, swinging on the billingsgate with his wife and rolling fried-egg eyes skyward at every silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best Baedeker of billingsgate and other U.S. lingua frank since Mencken.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there, some say, he also goes in for union-busting and Bowery billingsgate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Douglas waxed furious and poured out his "senatorial billingsgate" upon the offenders.
From Life of Stephen A. Douglas by Gardner, William
